Her comments came about five hours after President Obama affirmed the need for openness in efforts by the administration and Congress to finish work on a health bill intended to expand coverage and rein in costs.
Some employees commented on perceptions of the Cancer Councils as a predominantly "white middle class organisation", despite openness and efforts to engage a wider constituency, including underserved populations.
But that was a price Mr. Castro seemed willing to pay to project an image of openness in an effort to sway opinion in the United States as some lawmakers push to ease restrictions on trade and travel.
In sheer volume, the release of more than two years of committee correspondence was both a remarkable display of openness and an effort to show that there was nothing unusual in what Mr. McCain has done by writing to agencies that regulate the companies whose employees have supported his campaign.
Maintaining emotional health was described as a continuous process requiring conscious effort, openness to learning, and personal growth.
Building on fundamental principles that emphasize synergy of effort, openness, and resource sharing for the benefit of all, international biobanking efforts have already begun to lay the groundwork for such harmonization.
Democratic leaders have been increasingly sounding the alarm about the disparity in spending, which may be contributing to something of a thaw among donors, or at least more openness to these efforts.
She could easily be referring to Chinese resistance to more openness, or stalled efforts to bring more accountability to government, or the furious battle against an unfiltered Web — all of which fall well short of the collapse of the regime.
The extant literature has highlighted the benefits of social media use in this context to enhance citizen participation and engagement in decision-making and policy development, facilitate openness and transparency efforts, and reduce corruption.
That's a radical shift for a company whose vision had been rooted in this idea of openness and transparency — efforts Facebook claimed would make the world more connected, which it determined was a good thing overall.
There are strong, complicated emotions implicit in the story, and Ms. Gerwig, with her guileless smarts and agreeable openness, makes a game effort at exploring them.
